Spurgeon Meditations

 

Call thy labourers, and give them their hire.

Mat 20 8

God is a good paymaster; He pays His servants while at work as well as when they have done it; and one of His payments is this: an easy conscience. If you have spoken faithfully of Jesus to one person when you go to bed at night you feel happy in thinking I have this day discharged my conscience of thatman's blood. There is a great comfort in doing something for Jesus. Oh what a happiness to place jewels in His crown and give Him to see of the travail of His soul! There is also very great reward in watching the first buddings of conviction in a soul! To say of that girl in the class She is tender ofheart, I do hope that there is the Lord's work within. To go home and pray over that boy who said something in the afternoon which made you think he must know more of divine truth than you had feared! Oh the joy of hope! But as for the joy of success! it is unspeakable. This joy overwhelming as it is is a hungry thing--you pine for more of it. To be a soul-winner is the happiest thing in the world. With every soul you bring to Christ you get a new heaven upon earth. But who can conceive the bliss which awaits us above! Oh how sweet is that sentence Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord! Do you know what the joy of Christ is over a saved sinner? This is the very joy which we are to possess in heaven. Yes when He mounts the throne you shall mount with Him. When the heavens ring with "Well done well done you shall partake in the reward; you have toiledwith Him, you have suffered with Him, you shall now reign withHim; you have sown with Him, you shall reap with Him; your facewas covered with sweat like His, and your soul was grieved forthe sins of men as His soul was, now shall your face be brightwith heaven's splendour as is His countenance, and now shallyour soul be filled with beatific joys even as His soul is.% 12/21/PM I clothed thee also with broidered work and shod thee with badgers' skin and I girded thee about with fine linen and I covered thee with silk." --Ezekiel 16:10 See with what matchless generosity the Lord provides for His people's apparel. They are so arrayed that the divine skill is seen producing an unrivalled broidered work in which every attribute takes its part and every divine beauty is revealed. No art like the art displayed in our salvation no cunning workmanship like that beheld in the righteousness of the saints. Justification has engrossed learned pens in all ages of the church and will be the theme of admiration in eternity. God has indeed "curiously wrought it." With all this elaboration there is mingled utility and durability comparable to our being shod with badgers' skins. The animal here meant is unknown but its skin covered the tabernacle and formed one of the finest and strongest leathers known. The righteousness which is of God by faith endureth for ever and he who is shod with this divine preparation will tread the desert safely and may even set his foot upon the lion and the adder. Purity and dignity of our holy vesture are brought out in the fine linen. When the Lord sanctifies His people they are clad as priests in pure white; not the snow itself excels them; they are in the eyes of men and angels fair to look upon and even in the Lord's eyes they are without spot. Meanwhile the royal apparel is delicate and rich as silk. No expense is spared no beauty withheld no daintiness denied. What then? Is there no inference from this? Surely there is gratitude to be felt and joy to be expressed. Come my heart refuse not thy evening hallelujah! Tune thy pipes! Touch thy chords! Strangely, my soul, art thou arrayed By the Great Sacred Three! In sweetest harmony of praise Let all thy powers agree.


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